First Focus on Children gathered experts and day-to-day implementers of H.R. 1 from key states to discuss the law’s impact on Medicaid, SNAP, and children's social safety net.
Children's Budget 2025 finds that the share of federal spending on children has declined for the fourth straight year, hitting its lowest point since the previous Trump Administration.
Our policy team analyzes the granular policy agenda intended to serve as the “playbook” for a Republican presidential administration. This extremist agenda proposes measures that would leave America’s children poorer, sicker, and less likely to become productive citizens. Our series explores some of the most harmful proposals.
Babies in the Budget 2025 tracks the federal government's chronic underfunding of the nation's babies. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, just 1.59% of all federal spending went toward supporting children under 3. This investment will shrink further as historic cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enacted by the recent reconciliation bill take effect.
In this episode, Messellech “Selley” Abebe talks with Chad Bolt about what happens when the food safety net millions…
First Focus Campaign for Children sent a message today to legislative directors for all 435 members of the House…
The ignorance and arrogance emanating from leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services reared its head again…
Once again, Congress is on the precipice of a government shutdown, this time battling over whether to take a…
In a message sent today to all U.S. senators, First Focus Campaign for Children urged lawmakers to separate the…
Given the Trump Administration’s hollowing out of U.S. foreign assistance in 2025 and its efforts to rescind and drastically…
For more than 15 years, First Focus on Children has produced our annual Children’s Budget, an analysis of the funding — and therefore the value — that we as a nation place on our children. The Children’s Budget offers U.S. leaders and lawmakers a comprehensive picture of where and how we spend our money on children, and what changes we must make to better prioritize them in federal budget and policy decisions.
